Born in Frauental, near Deutschlandsberg, Styria, Feb 15, 1847
Died in Vienna, Feb 19, 1927
- Fuchs was an organist, conductor of Vienna’s Gesellschaft für Musikfreunde (an orchestral society) and a professor of harmony at the Vienna Conservatory. His students included Mahler, Sibelius, and Hugo Wolf.
- Fuchs was a friend of Brahms, who admired Fuchs’s music.
“Fuchs is a splendid musician; everything is so fine and so skillful, so charmingly invented, that one is always pleased.”
Johannes Brahms (1891)1
Sources
- Robert Pascall, “Fuchs, Robert,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed October 8, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000010342.